“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.”
William Styron
“There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.”
Alfred Adler
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis”
Sigmund Freud
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”
